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Best of PCR London Valves 2019 #PCRLV #CardioTwitter
19 Nov 2019
View a selection of the best tweets from #PCRLV, the Heart Team Course, focussing on transcatheter therapies for valvular heart disease.

Special procedures: transcaval access
17 Nov 2019 – From PCR London Valves 2019
Consult this session to learn more about the management of transcaval access and closure for your TAVI patients, and discover various solutions and devices to cope with most complications and plan ahead for all eventualities.

Special procedures: the BASILICA to avoid coronary obstruction in high risk anatomy
17 Nov 2019 – From PCR London Valves 2019
Consult this session to discover various approaches to predict coronary obstruction in high risk anatomy and gain insight into BASILICA, an emerging technique to avoid this major complication, thanks to a selection of challenging clinical cases.

Complex TAVI procedures: BASILICA and ring cracking
17 Nov 2019 – From PCR London Valves 2019
Consult this session to discover complex TAVI cases using BASILICA and valve cracking techniques to prevent complications and manage difficult cases, such as: aortic root tricuspidisation, redo TAVI in a failed self-expanding valve, paravalvular leak, and more!

Complex TAVI procedures: valve-in-valve
17 Nov 2019 – From PCR London Valves 2019
Consult this session to discover how to manage complex valve-in-valve TAVR, with a selection of clinical cases regarding severe aortic regurgitation in a degenerated aortic homograft, pure regurgitation into an invisible Bentall conduit, and more!

Rivaroxaban-based antithrombotic strategy vs antiplatelet-based strategy after TAVR to optimize clinical outcomes: GALILEO
19 Nov 2019
At AHA 2019 in Philadelphia - USA, George Dangas presented the results of the GALILEO trial. Mirvat Al Asnag interviews Marco Valgimigli (GALILEO Trial Steering Committee) on the primary results.

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About a complex clinical decision...
14 Nov 2019
View this case of a 79-year-old male with a diagnosis of hepatocarcinoma and severe AVS, mild mitral regurgitation and AF under oral anticoagulation who was admitted for TAVI…

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What are the remaining limitations of TAVI? - Webinar on demand
05 Nov 2019
The next best thing to participating in a PCR Webinar? Watch the video on demand with N. Dumonteil, A. S. Petronio and D. Blackman!

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation vs. surgical aortic valve replacement for treatment of symptomatic severe aortic stenosis: an updated meta-analysis
22 Oct 2019
Owing to new evidence from randomized controlled trials in low-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis, the authors compared the collective safety and efficacy of TAVI vs. SAVR across the entire spectrum of surgical risk patients...

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2nd edition of the Percutaneous Cardiac Interventions Textbook
09 Oct 2019
Editors M. Sabaté and S. Brugaletta share how the additional live cases, videos and media content provide crystal clear tips and tricks on new procedures.

The future of medical device regulation in the European Union
New EU regulations on medical devices will come into force in 2020. Giulio Stefanini, Robert Byrne and Paul Piscoi discuss how new regulation is needed “to reflect the changes in the field over the last decades” and outline what this will mean for the safety of...

Editor's picks: impactful articles in interventional cardiology
01 Oct 2019
Struggling to keep up with the mass of scientific information in interventional cardiology? On this page you will find a selection of recent articles published in major journals in the field - use it to guide your reading!

How should I treat with rotational atherectomy a TAVI candidate
18 Sep 2019
This is the case of an 84-year-old woman in good general condition, with severe AVS on medical management, chronic atrial fibrillation and admitted with heart failure and chest pain...

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Preventive cardiology: what the interventional cardiologist needs to know in 2019
19 Sep 2019
Risk and aspirin, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes: read this article written by J.W. McEvoy and D. Mylotte
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SCOPE I: A randomized trial of the ACURATE Neo vs. the SAPIEN 3 bioprosthesis in patients with severe aortic stenosis - TCT 2019
28 Sep 2019
The results of the SCOPE I trial were presented at TCT 2019 in San Francisco by Jonas Lanz, Bern University Hospital. Read the analysis by Fabien Praz.

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PCR @ TCT 2019
17 Sep 2019
View reviews of a selection of major Late-breaking Clinical Trials in Interventional Cardiology released at the 2019 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Scientific Sessions. Check out the list here!

Abstract Books – PCR London Valves
24 Nov 2024
Gain access here to all of the abstracts selected for oral or e-Poster presentation at recent editions of the Course. Use the top right free search or adjacent filter option to select according to topic of interest, author name or abstract title.

Portico I sub-study shows optimised TAVI outcomes
How effective are risk scores at stratifying patients into different surgical risk groups before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)? How do the rates of mortality, stroke and paravalvular leak after TAVI using the Portico TAVI System compare between patients assigned different risk scores? Join Lars Søndergaard...

Optimising safety and efficiency of TAVI procedures
Join Nicolas Dumonteil as he looks at some of the factors that can help optimise the safety and efficiency of modern transfemoral TAVI procedures. Discover what considerations need to be taken into account when choosing a TAVI device.
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The implications of the latest evidence for TAVI in daily practice
Join Hélène Eltchaninoff and Hendrik Treede as they talk to Bernard Prendergast about the impact of the latest evidence from the field of TAVI on everyday clinical practice. 2019 has been a landmark year for valve disease, with the results of the PARTNER 3 trial and...
